Mom writes brutal letter after her sleepy teen asks for a tardy note

A California mom is feeling praise from moms around the internet after sharing a note that her teenage daughter asked her to write.

Nicole Poppic, from Clarksburg, California, is done coddling her teenager daughter, Cara. Like any high schooler, Cara had a little trouble getting out of bed earlier this month, causing her to be late for class. But in most schools, an unexcused lateness can lead to punishment, so Cara asked her mother for a note to excuse her tardiness.

Unfortunately for Cara, the note was more incriminating than anything else, and Poppic blamed the whole ordeal on Cara's teenage-ism.

"Adolescents across our great nation are afflicted and there is no known cure," Poppic wrote in the letter. "Symptoms are multitudinous, but this particular morning she suffered from an inability to remove herself from her bed, and also felt the need to talk back to her birth giver."

Ouch. But it gets worse. Poppic also threw Cara's phone out the window during the drive to school, which clearly got her attention.

If that wasn't bad enough, Poppic explains in a blog post that Cara refused to hand the note to the attendance office at her school, so Poppic helped her out and delivered the note with her.

"I got my service dog out of the backseat and we walked into the attendance office together. The attendance clerk cracked a smile, but didn’t say anything; she just gave Cara her tardy slip," Poppic wrote on her blog.

Poppic also explains that she retrieved the phone later, but kept it for four days as punishment. She also stressed at the end of the blog that Cara is a good kid who does well in school, but sometimes a lesson is in order.

"I feel it is important for all of my children to realize that no matter what kind of mood a person is in, they are still responsible for their own actions and they are expected to be aware of how those actions affect other people," Poppic wrote.

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